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Monday, April 11, 2016

Île Flottante au Chocolat/Floating Island with Chocolate

Île flottante is a delightful French dessert which is also known as Floating island. Egg whites when beaten as meringue dropped into a créme angalaise aka a vanilla custard sauce. When meringue cooked dropped into to this sauce starts floating and ressembles as much as like floating islands. This desserts is our family favourite and since ever i started making myself at home, my family asks me quite often to make this dessert. And i have been preparing this dessert at home quite from a long as this dessert asks for easy ingredients, but still i have few more versions to try. My lil one was asking for a chocolate loaded floating islands since a long and finally i prepared some few days back for a small get together we had at home. Floating island is made of egg whites and which is served along with a silky milky custard sauce. Some makes their custard sauce thicker and serve on the top of the dumpling but most of the recipe calls for almost liquid, thin custard sauce to make the dumplings float on the top of the sauce.

Beaten egg whites are poured in a mould to get baked in oven before served along with custard sauce, though traditionally egg whites are shaped with spoons and allowed to cook gently in boiling water. I have seen this method of cooking egg whites in a TV show and i follow the same cooking process whenever i prepare this ultimate dessert. Usually served with vanilla custard this dessert can be served both at room temperature or cold. Today's post for this whole month of blogging marathon goes for an another incredible version of floating islands as i prepared the custard sauce with chocolate. Chocolate custard sauce is almost the same as the vanilla custard which is quite easy to make too. You might have noticed that am running this month's blogging marathon with Journey through the cuisines as theme and we marathoners are posting recipe's name starts with alphabets. Today is our 9th day of blogging marathon and today's alphabet is 'I', hence this delicious dessert.